Nathan Radke

coast, you don't see that serpent head image, unsurprisingly.

In fact, the image is a composite.

What the serpent head appears to be is that there's an area of the world between South America and Antarctica.

And there's this underwater landform caused by continental shelves that sort of vaguely looks like a serpent head.

And so somebody assembled this image deliberately in order to put it online to generate some heat.

And that's basically all we're looking at here.

But I will say, there is a long and interesting history of sea monsters that does tell us something about ourselves.

I mean, when you scroll down to the comments section, the ratio of believers to nonbelievers is pretty heavily tilted towards nonbelievers.

Because there's lots of people flooding the comment section to do a little well actually.

But of course, the thing is, when you interact with a social media post, even if you're disproving it, you're giving it life.

Posts thrive off engagement.

Doesn't matter what the engagement is.

A comment is a comment.

Yeah, that's absolutely true.

And it's easy to see why sea monsters have always figured prominently in folklore and myth.

I mean, if you think about where humans live, we tend to live near bodies of water.

Those bodies of water are going to be really important for food, for transportation.

They're going to seem like they have moods.

Basically, our entire civilization is in some way going to be associated with these bodies of water.

And it wouldn't have been uncommon in ancient times for ships to go off to sea and just never come back and generally not even leave a trace behind.